Masquerading Memoirs
Download Masquerading Memoirs full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Masquerading Memoirs ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
| Author | : Lawrence Creegan |
| Publisher | : Archway Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 87 |
| Release | : 2021-08-30 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1665710497 |
I was born the fourth of four sons to my Irish school teaching parents who resided in Warwick, Rhode Island. Like many other kids, I was a handful for my parents, but I managed to graduate from Pilgrim High School in Warwick in 1973. I then enrolled in Johnson and Wales University in Providence in 1976 and graduated in 1978 with an associate degree in culinary arts. I only lasted about four years in the food industry as it mostly commands that you work on weekend nights and holidays. During my stint in the food industry I would hear from my friends “what a party you missed” or “what a concert you missed”. Needless to say, I got sick of hearing this so I took a carpenter apprentice job and ended up starting my own construction business as an independent home remodeler. That kept me happy and lasted 26 years until the banking crisis hit in 2008. As the economy hit bottom my phone quit ringing as everyone was afraid to spend any money. I then took a job with the state of Rhode Island working for a local university near my home. I have since retired, on my birthday of all days, in November of 2020. Now I just wait for the royalty checks to roll in. This book is basically an autobiography starting with the continuation of my first book “Hi-Larry-ous Halloweens” which was published in 2004. I didn’t give up making costumes after 2004 so I created this book to give some insight to the “Hi-Larry-ous-Halloweens” fans I created after first book came out. Costumes make up the first half of the book and the rest are short stories of events that have happened to me over my lifetime. When I let some close friends read the prototype of this book most of them were laughing a page or two which makes me smile.
| Author | : Lowell Cauffiel |
| Publisher | : Pinnacle Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1997-09 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 9780786004683 |
This true crime account unravels the bizarre circumstances surrounding the hideous mutilation murder of Dr. Alan Canty, a respected Detroit psychologist. Obsessed with a teenage hooker named Dawn Spens, Canty found himself caught in a horrifying world of double identities, drug addiction, and blackmail, which ended in his brutal murder at the hands of Dawn's pimp boyfriend, John "Lucky" Fry. Photo insert.
| Author | : Kit Williams |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Fantasy |
| ISBN | : |
On his way to deliver a splendid necklace to the Sun from the Moon, Jack Hare is diverted by a series of odd characters and when he finally reaches his destination he realizes that the necklace is missing. The reader is invited to answer several riddles and solve the mystery from clues given in the text.
| Author | : Alfred F. Young |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2005-03-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0679761853 |
In Masquerade, Alfred F. Young scrapes through layers of fiction and myth to uncover the story of Deborah Sampson, a Massachusetts woman who passed as a man and fought as a soldier for seventeen months toward the end of the American Revolution. Deborah Sampson was not the only woman to pose as a male and fight in the war, but she was certainly one of the most successful and celebrated. She managed to fight in combat and earn the respect of her officers and peers, and in later years she toured the country lecturing about her experiences and was partially successful in obtaining veterans’ benefits. Her full story, however, was buried underneath exaggeration and myth (some of which she may have created herself), becoming another sort of masquerade. Young takes the reader with him through his painstaking efforts to reveal the real Deborah Sampson in a work of history that is as spellbinding as the best detective fiction.
| Author | : Nikki Grimes |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2017-08-08 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0425289761 |
The beloved and award-winning novel now available in a new format with a great new cover! When Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class, some of his classmates clamor to read their poems aloud too. Soon they're having weekly poetry sessions and, one by one, the eighteen students are opening up and taking on the risky challenge of self-revelation. There's Lupe Alvarin, desperate to have a baby so she will feel loved. Raynard Patterson, hiding a secret behind his silence. Porscha Johnson, needing an outlet for her anger after her mother OD's. Through the poetry they share and narratives in which they reveal their most intimate thoughts about themselves and one another, their words and lives show what lies beneath the skin, behind the eyes, beyond the masquerade.
| Author | : Carolyne Wright |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2021-10-15 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781736432334 |
Masquerade is a jazz-inflected, lyric-narrative sequence of poems, a "memoir in poetry" set principally in pre-Katrina New Orleans and in Seattle, involving an interracial couple who are artists and writers. Moved by mutual fascination, shared ideals and aspirations, and the passion they discover in each other, the two are challenged to find a place together in the cultures of both races and families, amid personal and political dislocations as well as questions of trust--all against the backdrop of America's racism and painful social history. The twentieth century's global problem, the color line, as W. E. B. du Bois named it, is enacted here in microcosm between these lovers and fellow artists, who must face their own fears and unresolved conflicts in each other. Similar stories have been told from the male protagonist's point of view; Masquerade is unique in foregrounding the female perspective.
| Author | : Catherine A. Craft-Fairchild |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2012-03-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0271038209 |
Terry Castle's recent study of masquerade follows Bakhtin's analysis of the carnivalesque to conclude that, for women, masquerade offered exciting possibilities for social and sexual freedom. Castle's interpretation conforms to the fears expressed by male writers during the period—Addison, Steele, and Fielding all insisted that masquerade allowed women to usurp the privileges of men. Female authors, however, often mistrusted these claims, perceiving that masquerade's apparent freedoms were frequently nothing more than sophisticated forms of oppression. Catherine Craft-Fairchild's work provides a useful corrective to Castle's treatment of masquerade. She argues that, in fictions by Aphra Behn, Mary Davys, Eliza Haywood, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Frances Burney, masquerade is double-sided. It is represented in some cases as a disempowering capitulation to patriarchal strictures that posit female subordination. Often within the same text, however, masquerade is also depicted as an empowering defiance of the dominant norms for female behavior. Heroines who attempt to separate themselves from the image of womanhood they consciously construct escape victimization. In both cases, masquerade is the condition of femininity: gender in the woman's novel is constructed rather than essential. Craft-Fairchild examines the guises in which womanhood appears, analyzing the ways in which women writers both construct and deconstruct eighteenth-century cultural conceptions of femininity. She offers a careful and engaging textual analysis of both canonical and noncanonical eighteenth-century texts, thereby setting lesser-read fictions into a critical dialogue with more widely known novels. Detailed readings are informed throughout by the ideas of current feminist theorists, including Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Mary Ann Doane, and Kaja Silverman. Instead of assuming that fictions about women were based on biological fact, Craft-Fairchild stresses the opposite: the domestic novel itself constructs the domestic woman.
| Author | : Shane Leslie |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1924 |
| Genre | : Fantasy fiction, English |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Tivadar Soros |
| Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2011-03-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1611450241 |
A powerful, moving, and very personal memoir of "dancing around death" under the Nazi regime, by the father of billionaire financier George Soros. "Life is beautiful," begins Tividar Soros in this powerful and very personal memoir. "But luck must be on your side." Nevertheless, when faced with the daunting task of protecting his family during the Nazi occupation of Hungary, Soros, the father of billionaire financier George Soros, made his own luck.
| Author | : Mark M. Hull |
| Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2017-05-18 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0806158352 |
Phyllis Ursula James. Nora O’Mara. Róisín Ní Mheara. Like her name, the life of Rosaleen James changed many times as she followed a convoluted path from abandoned child, to foster daughter of an aristocratic British family, to traitor during World War II, to her emergence as a full Irish woman afterward. In Masquerade, authors Mark M. Hull and Vera Moynes tell James’s story as it unfolds against the backdrop of the most important events of the twentieth century. James’s life—both real and imagined—makes for an incredible but true story. By altering her identity to suit the situation, James manipulated almost everyone she encountered: the German intelligence service, the Nazi propaganda broadcasting service, British intelligence, and various Irish cultural groups. She was in a liaison with Irish writer Francis Stuart and, with him, provided a voice for Nazi radio programs aimed at neutral Ireland, served as the pseudo-Irish expert for German espionage missions, and participated in the failed, almost comical effort to recruit Irish prisoners of war to join the Nazis against Great Britain—quite a series of performances, considering her only contact with Ireland had been a weeklong visit in 1937. Immediately after the war, James was wanted by British intelligence as a “renegade” (traitor), but her case was quickly squelched by the British government. Drawing on an assumed wartime persona, she became fluent in Irish Gaelic and organized a number of conferences for which she won grants from the Irish government. James garnered wider attention in 1992 with her autobiography, published in Gaelic, in which she claimed that the Holocaust was a myth—a belief she maintained until her death in 2013. In documenting James’s life of deception, Hull and Moynes masterfully analyze how an intellectually gifted child turned traitor to her country and convincingly rebranded herself as an Irish patriot and intellectual, while denying historical reality. The story of Rosaleen James reminds us that reality may be much less—or more—than what meets the eye and ear.
